THE HALO HALO REVIEW'S MANGOZINE--ISSUE 21

In addition to aggregating reviews from the internet, THE HALO-HALO REVIEW presents The Mangozine which features new reviews and serves as the online publisher for reviews and other engagements (e.g. book introductions) published in print but not yet available within the internet.  Other features, including author interviews and reader testimonials, also will be presented. The following presents a Table of Contents for Issue 21 -- CLICK on links to go to the reviews.

Submission deadline for the 22nd issue has been set at Nov. 15, 2026 (though we will take reviews sooner than the deadline if that is more convenient for the reviewers).

ISSUE 21

(May  2026)

Editor's Note:  Welcome to the 21st issue of THE HALO-HALO REVIEW where we provide engagements with Filipino-Pilipinz literature and art and authors/artists through reviews and engagements, interviews and other prose. We hope readers, writers, artists, and publishers will continue to participate and share information about numerous Filipino authors and the wide variety of their writings. 

I. NEW REVIEWS AND ENGAGEMENTS

A Small Party in a Garden: Revised and Critical Edition by Linda Ty-Casper (PALH, 2026)

Engaged by Eileen Tabios

How I Became A Writer, edited by Cecilia M. Brainard (PALH, 2025)--TO BE ADDED SOON

Engaged by Michael Caylo-Baradi

Azucena: Centennial Edition by M. de Gracia Concepcion (Persea, 2025)

Engaged by Eileen Tabios  

Some People Need Killing: A Memoir of Murder in My Country by Patricia Evangelista (Random House, 2023)

Reviewed by Gema Charmaine Gonzales

“War and Peace” by Gabriela Lee from The Lives of a Filipino High School Student: Anthology of Personal Essays on High School in the Philippines edited by Rolando B. Tolentino, Joselito D. De Los Reyes, and Ferdinand Piagan Jarin (University of Santo Tomas Press, 2022)

Reviewed by Angela Maria "Blythe" Tabios

The Erotic Space Around Art Objects by Eileen R. Tabios (Sandy Press, 2026)

Reviewed by Lynn M. Grow

House of Monstrous Women by Daphne Fama (Berkley, 2025) 

Engaged by Eileen Tabios 

Smaller and Smaller Circles by FH Batacan (Soho Crime, 2015)

Reviewed by Gema Charmaine Gonzales

Tales From Manila by Patrick Joseph Caoile (Sundress Publications, 2025)

Engaged by Eileen Tabios

Suddenly Stateside: A Postscript by Marivi Soliven (Unsung Voices Books, 2025)

Engaged by Rachielle Ragasa Sheffler

Everyone I Love, Alive by Jason Bayani (Omnidawn, 2025)

Engaged by Eileen Tabios

Salt in Her Lungs: A Memoir of Trauma, Healing, and the Wisdom of the Waters by Glenda Lee Goce Macatangay (Eulalia Press, 2026)

Reviewed by Jeannie E. Celestial

facture by Raymond de Borja (Broken Sleep Books, 2024)

Engaged by Eileen Tabios

The Door Opens... by Ysabel San Pedro Schuld (Atticus, 2024)

Engaged by Cymbeline Villamin

Drawing the Six Directions by Eileen R. Tabios (Sandy Press, 2024)

Engaged by Lynn M. Grow

II. TROIKA: THREE WRITERS ON ONE BOOK

You Won't See Me: When the Beatles Ghosted Imelda by David Guerrero (1) (Penguin Random House SEA, 2025)

Reviewed by Jose Victor Torres

You Won't See Me: When the Beatles Ghosted Imelda by David Guerrero (2) (Penguin Random House SEA, 2025)

Reviewed by Lionel Zivan Valdellon

You Won't See Me: When the Beatles Ghosted Imelda by David Guerrero (3) (Penguin Random House SEA, 2025)

Reviewed by harry k stammer

III. FEATURES

"The Music of Sappho in the Poems of Angela Manalang-Gloria" by Lynn M. Grow

A Daughter's Speech for Wilfrido D. Nolledo by Melissa "Mimi" Nolledo during Manila Book Launch for Wilfrido D. Nolledo's Canticles for Dark Lovers

"Perimeter Child" by Cristina Querrer

"Filipino or Pilipino..." by Alex Fabros

"Philippine Colonial History in Postcolonial Translation: Doing Judo on National Remembering" by S. Lily Mendoza

Roxanne San Jose: Writer and Bookseller

"M. Evelina Galang: Memory, Witness, and the Archive of Filipina Survival" by Alex Fabros

IV. AUTHOR INTERVIEWS, POST-BOOK

Yolanda ‘Yoli’ Catalla: I'm Not Weird, I'm Marginal

V. TROIKA: INTERVIEWS ON BOOKS

Ysabel San Pedro Schuld interviews Cymbeline R Villamin on The Witch of Pontevedra

Cymbeline Villamin interviews Eileen R. Tabios on The Erotic Space Around Art Objects: Selected Art Stories (1996-2026)

Eileen R. Tabios interviews Ysabel San Pedro Schuld on The Door Opens...

VI. READERS SHOW SOME LOVE TO FILIPINO AUTHORS
Go HERE to read:

Rachielle Ragasa Sheffler on Pati Navalta Poblete 

Yolanda ‘Yoli’ Catalla on Maxine Pulgar Ramos 

VII. FROM OFFLINE TO ONLINE/REPRINTS

Reviews

Reviews by Philippine Free Press (1989), Barbara Solaro for Pilipinas (1993), and Tanglaw (1995) of A Small Party In A Garden by Linda Ty-Casper (New Day, 1988), as presented in the book's Revised & Critical Edition (PALH, 2026)

From Books: Introductions, Prefaces, Forewords, Afterwords, Author's Notes & Other Prose

Foreword by Paolo Javier to dust of a contact that is everywhere by Raymond De Borja (Fonograf Editions, 2026)

Foreword by Patrick Rosal to Azucena: Centennial Edition by M. de Gracia Concepcion (Persea, 2025)

Author's Note to House of Monstrous Women by Daphne Fama (Berkley, 2025) 

Introduction by D.M. Reyes to The Amorist: The Collected Stories of Geraldine C. Maayo (Popular Book Store, 2026)

Introduction by Aileen Cassinetto to The Nature of Our Times: Poems on America's Lands, Waters, Wildlife, and Other Natural Wonders, edited by Luisa A. Igloria, Aileen Cassinetto and David Hassler (Paloma Press / Poets for Science / United by Nature / Wick Poetry Center at Kent State University, 2025)

Author's Note by Eileen R. Tabios to The Balikbayan Artist by Eileen R. Tabios (Penguin Random House SEA, 2024)